URGENT- i need your help.. would you be pissed off if you went to a party and...

[noonar]

...were asked to take your shoes off in the house???

we are having a party with a casino and cocktails theme for our house warming. have told everyone to get glammed up but have just realised whilst trying on my shoes that my new heels are going to totally trash our new wooden floors. that means everyone else's heels will too!

i have 3 choices...
-tell people to take shoes off at door
-ask them in advance to wear flats
-fork out for floor covering eg hire dance floors/ lay down cheap off cuts of carpet.

ideas/ advice urgently needed! you cant ask people to get dressed up and then not let them wear their heels, can you???

tia

bum I meant

here

Big thread on this once before.

I was asked to do this once. I shan't be returning and I could kick myself for complying with the stupid request in the first place.

can you really get heel things to stick on? seriously?

patty- brings me out in a cold sweat just thinking about it! and there was me thinking my guest would think i was wierd putting rug in bathroom!

my bro suggested cheap red carpet- £2 a square m.

Well yes I guessed that .
But still, I would think 'tsk' a bit. Sorry.

Tbh, it would be tricky to find a good theme that would definately mean people wouldn't wear heels. Toga party maybe.

One of Aloha's posts on that thread:

"By aloha on Tue 24-Aug-04 19:25:43
I'm stunned. I wouldn't dream of asking a visitor to take off their shoes and feel mortified if someone asks me to - it's embarassing IMO to take off your nice boots or shoes and walk about looking like a midget in a nice outfit and stockinged feet. My friends have never asked me to take my shoes off. Shoes are part of your outfit and if you go out, you make a bit of effort. Shoes are sexy and elegant and to invite people to a party or for dinner and ask them to take their shoes off seems odd to me. it would spoil their outfit to sit there in socks or tights. Can you imagine Cary Grant sitting down to dinner in his socks? Not very suave. And I hardly ever wear shoes in the house - though am currently sporting Accessorise silver flip-flops - and have notoriously filthy feet. But it's a personal comfort thing, and not at all something I'd impose on others. we have wooden floors downstairs anyway. "

something like this?
SIL bought some from BHS with a round plastic disc on the bottom to stop her heels sinking into the grass at a wedding

this reminds me of the year my mum and dad let me and my brother have a little party on new years eve. i was about 15, and had to call a rather abrupt end to it all when one of my friends walked across the newly done kitchen in heels and left holes across the brand new lino (this was 1984 btw)

could you plant some pampas grass in the garden and make it a 'swingers' party, that way guests will have to remove their shoes, along the rest of their clothes

I think I would feel just as embarassed asking people to stick pads on their heels as I would asking them to take their shoes off - my friends would laugh in my face!

www- i totally agree with aloha. hell, i dont even want to take my OWN shoes off. It would RUIN MY oufit- never mind theirs-lol!

that settles it. cheap carpet it is, then.

thanks for heel protector link, but would have to ask everyone's foot size in advance!

I'm surprised that some people think it strange to be asked to take their shoes off indoors especially if you have cream carpet.

When we were looking at houses recently, we all took our shoes off each time we went into a house, just polite IMO. I always remove my shoes when I enter someones house.

cover the floor because:

you want your guests to relax and have fun

they want to get dressed up to the nines

you have promised them a glam evening

having a casino/cocktail night and insisting on flat shoes is a contradiction. Nothing instantly de-mummifies you like a pair of heels.

someone will turn up in heels, or with those metal bits on their heels to stop them wearing out, and you'll be stressing all night.

You want to relax and enjoy it, cover the floor!

i agree patty.

just wanted to get a few views incase the consensus was ' ooh don't go to any extra expense, just ask them to slip off their shoes- they won't mind'...am SO glad i asked you lot!

I think it's different with a glam party. Off cuts a good idea IMO.

here's some more
you don't need a size on these

sorry it says you do.. but I'd shove any old heel in. btw the last ones are the same as in bhs EXCEPT bhs are clear and 2 quid

afetr all peopel do have dancing shoes

Amend dress code to stay no stilletto or thin heels.

you can't tell people what kind of shoes to wear! They are adults!!

i think my close friends would understand, but its hard to 'pull off' a cocktail drees in flat shoes. heels make legs so much better! i would feel happy saying no stilettos, if it werent for the theme.

I wouldn't be upset at all, but we have a no-shoes policy in my house, and so do all my close friends. I always insist that my kids take off their shoes, so why shouldn't adults. You can buy signs asking people to leave their shoes in the hall - or make one. Maybe something upbeat like...kick off your shoes and make yourself at home.